Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
Within the magazine, changes have been plentiful. Since photographs were a major expense, the first issue had only eleven cuts, five of them pencil sketches. In the seventh issue the department of "Finance" became "Business & Finance." "Crime" became a subdivision of "National Affairs" (1925); "Aeronautics" part of a new department, "Transport" (1934). So many people objected to having words put into their mouths (although the facts reported were true) that "Imaginary Interviews" was eliminated in 1924; two years later "People" replaced it. Two departments in the first issue, "Point with Pride" and "View with Alarm," were the nearest TIME ever...
Apparently not counting on the respect of young voyagers for any future esthetic effects, the prospective subway artists considered one of their problems to be that of finding mediums which no pencil could mutilate. Murals would also have to be resistant to vibration, dirt and cold. Technical aid on these points was available from one of the best-qualified experts on artists* materials in the U. S. Many artists credit 40-year-old Ralph Mayer with reviving tempera painting almost singlehanded through his course on it at Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1931. A chemical engineer...
...little courtroom was packed when Colonel William J. Donovan got slowly to his feet last week. Most important person present, not including the defendants and attorneys, was University of Wisconsin's illustrious Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry, his pencil out and ready to catch "Wild Bill" Donovan in action. Colonel Donovan cried: "Gentlemen, we may now see another depression, a new call for men to sit down with their President...
...soon entertained by the hospitality of Sibelius and his wife. Of the composer's appearance he says only a word: "His head was impressive; the mass of Strindberg's without the madness." The interview was typical of the author. He was not, like Boswell, "out with his notebook and pencil as soon as the car left the gate." In his own words, he says, "To me it all seems to have passed in a dream, ending with a stirrup-cup of John Haig and the kindest of partings...